Professor Jennifer L.M. Rupp FRSC is the professor for Electrochemical Materials at TU Munich researching materials for next energy conversion and storage and until recently was affiliated as faculty to MIT, she is also Co-Founder and CSO of Qkera GmbH a battery material producer.
Prior she earned her PhD degree at ETH Zurich Switzerland and was affiliated as a visiting and senior scientist at MIT (2012-2011) and the National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS) in Tsukuba, Japan (2011). She was a non-tenure track Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich (2012-2016). In 2017, she joined as faculty MIT, where she was promoted from Assistant to Associate Professor the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (MIT) till 2023.

She has published more than 145 papers, holds more 27 patents, and being a frequent speaker in the public such as a panel member of the World Economic Forum, enjoys discussing material tech trends on the theme of energy with the public, economists and policy makers. Rupp also enjoys engaging with companies all around the world through both consultancy and collaborations focused on material processing, business, and electrochemical device & product engineering (e.g. battery, sustainable fuel processing, sensing, electronic companies).

Recently she Co-Founded the battery material manufacture company Qkera to translate green and cost-effective battery solid manufacture to energy storage products as a platformntechnology and serves as the chief strategy officer (CSO). Her battery material company Qkera was the international 2024 Falling Walls competition in the category start-ups and is since 2025 in the VC portfolio of the strongest European capital funds.

Through her career she has won numerous awards and received honors from academies and industry including 2025 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz medal for extraordinary scientific merit by TUM, 2024 Fullrath Award for excellence in ceramic material design for batteries and fuel cells jointly by the American and Japanese Ceramic Societies and received the 2018 Merck Displaying Future Awards for novel energy conversion devices, the 2017 BASF and Volkswagen Science Award for her battery research, and many others. In 2019, she founded the LILA Mentorship program for Minorities in Engineering and Sciences.

Since 2025 she serves on the Board of Directors for the Material Research Society (MRS), sind 2024 she is the Vice President of the International Solid State Ionics Society. She is since 2024 a member of the National Academy Leopoldina and a Max Planck Fellow in Germany, and since 2021 an elected member of the Royal Chemical Society (UK).